Hypervalue
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Hypervalue is a noun meaning (countable) A value more important or beyond an ordinary value.
Meaning
(countable) A value more important or beyond an ordinary value.
More Meanings
- (uncountable) An extreme amount of value.
- To value extremely highly or closely.
- To assign a higher value than is necessary or appropriate; to overvalue.
Example Sentences
But it is not only this functional explanation that allows us to understand the hypervalue attached to archeology.
To the missionaries other ways of reasoning were perceived as contending against their long established and hypervalued truth.
Who gets how much of these is no longer organized according to the hypervalue that the physician's presence, in itself, can be healing.
Hypervalues are those values that inform secondary, derivative values. Hypervalues are appealed to in defence of these secondary values, but they themselves have no further appeal.
Word Forms
- hypervalues
- hypervaluing
- hypervalued
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include hypervaluation, overbalance, overvaluation, overvaluing, hyperbole, superabundance.
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